[olug] sound w/ devfs

[thehaas at binary.net]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:53:08AM -0600, Mike Hostetler wrote:
> 
> Sound no longer works on my Gentoo box (which uses devfs).  I changed
> /etc/devfsd.conf to look like this:
> 
> 		  LOOKUP          snd          MODLOAD ACTION snd
> 		  LOOKUP          dsp          MODLOAD
> 		  LOOKUP          mixer        MODLOAD
> 		  LOOKUP          midi         MODLOAD
> 		  REGISTER        sound/*      PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
> 		  REGISTER        sound/.*     PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
> 		  REGISTER        snd/.*       PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
> 		  REGISTER        snd/*       PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
[snip]

FYI --

The problem was that the group 'audio' didn't have executable permissions
on /dev/sound.  Once I changed the permissions of the above to "770",
than sound works fine.

-- mikeh